(N. America) Warming could spark water scramble: experts - Reuters

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Warming could spark water scramble: experts

By Timothy Gardner
1 hour, 38 minutes ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Climate change could diminish North American
water supplies and trigger disputes between the United States and
Canada over water reserves already stressed by industry and
agriculture, U.N. experts said on Wednesday.

More heat waves like those that killed more than 100 people in the
United States in 2006, storms like the killer hurricanes that struck
the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 and wildfires are likely in North America
as temperatures rise, according to a new report that provided
regional details on a U.N. climate panel study on global warming
issued in Brussels on April 6.

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The broadest effects of climate change will be water problems
across the entire continent -- including more frequent droughts,
urban flooding and a scramble for water from the Great Lakes,
which border both the United States and Canada.

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Tight underground water supplies could kick off a scramble for
large above-ground supplies in the Great Lakes, the report said.
Spats have already occurred over diversion of the lakes' water
for distant cities and farms, while calls have increased for
channeling water to the Mississippi River to supply U.S. cities
during hot summers.

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